Lent 33
Creating & Advocating God, would that we (like you) could speak a word and it would come into being! Then we would say, “Love!” and suddenly all would be their brothers’ keepers. We would say,...
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Come, friend: the world is hard enough. Let’s not argue over access to God or qualifications for loving one another. We’re walking in the same direction (and goodness knows I have much to learn), so if...
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Healing Spiritual Wounds
I’m ever grateful for the written work of colleagues whose words deepen the ongoing conversations about Church & faith in the 21st century. Carol Howard Merritt’s new book, Healing Spiritual...
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Kids and Prayer (DVD Giveaway)
Here it is: the biggest value of my giveaways this month: a free copy of the Kids and Prayer DVD (Protestant version) by Paraclete Press, in which I host four kid-friendly episodes about the basics of...
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Kids and Prayer (VBS)
It’s giveaway week for my Kids and Prayer DVD, a fun & creative resource in which I host four kid-friendly episodes about the basics of prayer. A $50 value, free for your home or church library!...
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Kids and Prayer (Summer Sunday School)
Have you entered your name in this week’s giveaway drawing to win a free copy of the Kids and Prayer DVD? This fun resource, with four kid-friendly episodes about the basics of prayer, is a $50 value...
View ArticleMelted
What the hell do any of us know, O Eternal Mystery? While we worship constancy and might, mountains melt and remold like wax. While we sing hymns in echoing caverns, the Spirit waits upon those in...
View ArticleDivest and Defund
The white Church is long overdue to acknowledge and repent of its theological fostering of, financial contribution to & gain from, continued complicity and silence in the face of racism. Long...
View ArticleCause for Alarm
In my social media feed, there’s a funny video of an emu overreacting to a loud noise by running haphazardly around the pasture with panicked energy, its legs churning, its neck swinging in high alert....
View ArticleHead, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” – 1 Corinthians 12:21 (NRSV) Actually, the eye can say to the hand, “I have no need of...
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